Labor's call for a banking royal commission may have well and truly hit the right chords. First, with the mass market of voters (one that overlaps, by and large, with the "mass affluent" segment hunted by most retail banks). read more

As the second five year term of current RBA governor Glenn Stevens winds up, it's more than likely that an outsider, rather than an obvious insider candidate, will be selected as the next governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. read more

APRA executive Heidi Richards floored readers of her speech for a Sydney forum on Friday, in which she asserted that "we have never had a real housing market downturn in this country, at least not since the advent of the modern era of mortgage banking or the significant growth in the share of this lending for Australian ADIs." read more